What is OSINT?

Open source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence gathered from publically-available yet often hard-to-find sources that is exploited and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience. In the information age, most 'secrets' are the amalgamation of data already in the public domain.

However, just because a piece of information exists in the open does not mean that it will be generally accessible. Considerable expertise is needed to collect relevant open sources and to retrieve information from them. Furthermore, a growing amount of this information is only available in non-English language sources, especially in the Middle East and East Asia. Ridgeway’s team has captured and distilled open-source information in Arabic, Burmese, Farsi, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Turkish, and other languages for over a decade for both national and international clients,

​We help filter out the noise, turning vast amounts of data into tailored intelligence.​